About Montiriski, Shmuel
Biography of Isack Morris by L.E. Fredman
Father referred to as Samuel Selig Monteviersky (sic).storekeeper. and his wife Yarcha Frida, née Yosef (sic).
Was a trader in furs and a teacher at the Yeshiva. Died in the influenza pandemic of 1918.
Grandpa Samuel was Head Teacher in a Yeshiva in Skoud (Skoudas) which was on the border of Lithuania and Latvia (as is Zagare) and is situated 120 km from Zagare. .
Revision List dated 26/5/1858 - 7 Montoriski's all living together in Zagare, Russia.
· ·Shmuel Manterisky? (sic), son of Notel, born 1848, age 10
· son of Berel, born1824, aged 34, Shmuel's father
· born1825, aged 33 Shmuel's mother)
Not registered on tree (as relationship not resolved)
· ·Shimshon son of Shmuel, born 1799, aged 59 (probably Shmuel's grandfather Berel's brother)
· born 1805, aged 53, Shimshon's wife
· son of Shimshon, born 1842, aged 16 who is registered as having died by 1858,
· son of Shimshon, born 1841, aged 17.
Tax and Voters Lists
Shmuel was identified on five separate occasions, in Skuodas, in various records as specified below:-
· ·1887: Craftsmen record: Dyer; was apprentice in Skuodas.
· Box Taxpayers record: Well-to-do; craftsman; Six in family.
· Box Taxpayers record: Three family members, a dyer, poor.
· Postal Savings Bank record: Lives in Svinskaya street, dyer, 200 rubles.
· Postal Savings Bank record: Dyer, 500 rubles.
Identified in Tax & Voter Lists - Relationship not resolved so not listed on Family Tree
· ·1846: Ber Mantorishek son of Shmuel, no age,very poor. Candle Taxpayer.
· Shimshel Mantorishek son of Smuyla, age 46, weak and poor. Candle Taxpayer - nonpaying.
· Leyb Montorishsky son of Shimel, no age, cabman, poor, 4 in family, New Zagare.
Passport Application 1920
Zelda Shatkun, maiden name Mantoritsiiki, from Telsiaii, applied for an internal passport on 29 June1920 at the age of 64 (so born 1856). There was no mention of her father's name so relationship not known, so not entered in Family Tree.
Lithuania Births
Zelda Shatkun (and her husband Ber Leib Shatkun) had three sons, Leizer 29/9/1885, David 30/5/1889, and Shlioma 4/11/1890 in Telsiai. Comments -Town-dweller. Family from Zagare.
Identified in Memorial Book of Skuodas - Relationship not resolved so not listed in Family Tree
Breina Montriski (or Mintriski) - had a cloth dyeing and knitting socks factory in New Town of Skuodas. She was murdered, aged 75, on 16 August 1941 in Alka Hill by Lithuanian collaborators of the Nazis. See link - Murder of Jews of Skuodas for more details.
Birth Citation
Revision List 26 May 1858
Death Citation
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